Salary sacrifice for EV charging
The Charge Scheme is the first and only salary sacrifice solution for EV charging. Your employees can now save 20-50% on all charging at home, at work, or on the road.
Offer EV charging as an employee benefit
The EV transition is accelerating, but charging access remains a major barrier, especially for employees without a home charger or those unsure how to manage charging costs.
The Charge Scheme removes that barrier by making EV charging cheaper, simpler, and more accessible for every employee. Through salary sacrifice, employees can cut their charging costs by 20-50%, saving hundreds, or even thousands, each year.
Download explainerWe make it easy to include charging as part of your benefit package:
- No cost for the business
- No changes to existing leasing or car schemes
- No extensive admin required
- No risk to the employer
Salary sacrifice makes EV charging more affordable
Ultra rapid & rapid: 50kW +
'Fast' 8-49kW
Diesel & petrol
Home tariff (Ofgem capped rate)
EV tariff (e.g. OVO Charge Anytime)
Source: RAC Charge Watch, Ofgem, The Electric Car Scheme.
| Ultra rapid & rapid: 50kW + | 24p per mile | With The Charge Scheme: 17p per mile |
|---|---|---|
| 'Fast' 8-49kW | 20p per mile | With The Charge Scheme: 14p per mile |
| Diesel & petrol | 17p per mile | 16p per mile |
| Home tariff (Ofgem capped rate) | 8p per mile | With The Charge Scheme: 5p per mile |
| EV tariff (e.g. OVO Charge Anytime) | 2p per mile | With The Charge Scheme: 0.5p per mile |
How does it work?
Three steps for your employees, and payroll instructions handled for you.
Employee pays for their charging
Using the 5-star rated Charge Scheme app and card, employees can pay for their EV charging at home, at work, or on the go. The app, powered by Plugsurfing, is compatible with over 76,000+ public charge points across the UK.
Submits monthly mileage
Employees submit their mileage each month on our easy-to-use employee portal. The Charge Scheme then calculates all public and non-public charging costs instantly.
Employees save thousands of pounds
We provide you with all the relevant payroll instructions to salary sacrifice the cost of charging, allowing your employees to make savings while driving electric.
Who are you? Let's show you what matters most
We support businesses across HR, finance, fleet, and sustainability. To help you find what's most relevant, choose the lens that best describes your role.
HR & People Teams
Improve employee engagement, attract talent, and support retention with a benefit that is highly valued and fully aligned with your ESG and wellbeing goals.
Finance & Payroll Teams
We take care of all the calculations and reporting. Our employer portal streamlines salary deductions and accurately accounts for personal and business mileage, saving your team time and admin burden.
Fleet & Procurement Teams
Enable more employees to make the switch to electric, reduce running costs, and manage EV related expenses with real charging data, without having to change your car supplier or scheme provider.
Also available
Reimburse. Business mileage for the modern fleet
Flat rates are failing EV drivers. Public rapid charging can cost 40p per kWh while the Advisory Electricity Rate pays back only 7p per mile, and 45p AMAP rates often overpay grey fleet drivers. Reimburse replaces manual reconciliation with a structured, payroll ready cost allocation.
Driver submits total miles
A monthly odometer reading from each driver. No app, GPS or tracking hardware.
Capture public charging cost
Drivers submit their actual public charging spend for the month.
Estimate home charging
An employer set rate, aligned to AER guidance, applied to home charged miles.
Allocate business mileage
A proportional split gives the exact reimbursement, packaged as one payroll file.
HMRC aligned
A structured allocation methodology aligned with HMRC guidance, with a full audit trail.
Cost neutral
Free for businesses, with no setup or running costs, funded through the savings structure.
Built for fleet and payroll
No manual reconciliation and no telematics. Just a payroll ready file every month.
We are onboarding an exclusive group of fleets onto Reimburse.
Works with your company car scheme
The Charge Scheme bolts directly onto your existing company car scheme. If you don't have a scheme in place, you can implement one through The Electric Car Scheme.
I have a car scheme
Great! Through The Charge Scheme, you can now add EV charging to your company car scheme.
Book a demo
I don't have a car scheme
That's ok! You can implement one through The Electric Car Scheme.
The Electric Car SchemeWhy companies use The Charge Scheme
"Since implementing The Charge Scheme as a zero-cost addition to our benefits package, we've seen remarkable enthusiasm from our team. The ability to save 20-50% on all charging costs through salary sacrifice has removed a significant barrier for educators considering the switch to electric vehicles."
Stephen Watson
Chief People Officer, Shaw Education Trust
"For a logistics company like ours with team members on the move across various sites, the ability for our staff to save 20-50% on all charging costs through salary sacrifice has been transformative in encouraging the switch to electric vehicles."
Amy Gordon
HR Coordinator at Europa Worldwide Group
See how it works in under a minute
From setting up the app to money back in your pocket, this is the whole Charge Scheme journey: charge as you normally would, log your mileage once a month, and the cost comes out of your gross salary.
Employees save 20-50% on charging. Payroll gets one clear monthly instruction. Nothing changes about how anyone charges.
Book a demo to see how The Charge Scheme fits into your benefits and fleet package.
Ready to learn more?
Whether you're building a future proof benefits package, looking to simplify EV charging for your teams, or accelerating your sustainability strategy, The Charge Scheme can help. Let's talk about how to make it work for your organisation.